I think if the world's governments all got together to find a renewable clean energy source Clean is debatable. Oil was considered clean back when the alternative was a horse crapping on the street or coal powered boilers.
We think fusion, wind, solar, etc. are clean simply because we haven't put much thought into what would happen if everyone used it on a massive scale.
For example, we know that wind and solar impact the local microclimate but we don't really have much data on their impact on a wider scale.
Better than oil? Certainly, but nothing is free and everything will have some kind of negative impact.
"Many secure facilities employ iris scanners, which analyze the features that exist in the colored tissue surrounding the pupil including rings, furrows and freckles. To help prevent "fake eyes" from being used, these systems shine a light into the user's eye to monitor pupil dilation. However, they have been routinely defeated in the laboratory by several astute experimenters. To accomplish this, a high-quality digital image of an authorized person first was obtained by the experimenter, then enlarged to show the eye detail and subsequently printed out on high-quality photographic paper. Then, a small hole was cut in the photograph where the pupil was printed to expose the pupil in the experimenter's own eye. The experimenter would then place the photo up against his eye so that his pupil could be seen behind the hole. This very basic and inexpensive technique was effective in routinely fooling the iris scan readers of several manufacturers."
Google caved under pressure to China to screen thoughtcrime out of its results. That's okay. The Chinese think a number of American, Canadian, European, etc. laws are pretty wacky too.
If Google wants to do business in $country then they generally need to follow that countries laws regardless of what people from outside $country think.
I imagine many Americans would be fairly upset if Google started to encourage 15 year olds to have a glass of wine or beer with dinner or a smoke after sex which is considered normal behaviour (if not encouraged behaviour) for people of that age in some countries.
Every place has wacky laws when you are not used to them.
That, and the fact that terrorists like trying to knock them over with trucks and airplanes. I didn't say Americans would build them.
Developers in other countries that don't have that particular fear will do it. Dubai and Hong Kong are probably both ready to step up to the plate -- they're both pushing elevator systems as far as they can go today.
1. There should not be a height restriction. Cables on elevators have a tendency to swing around at resonance points. This limits the length of the cable and the height of the shaft as a result.
2. It should be possible to run more than one elevator in a single shaft. Have a single up-shaft and a single down-shaft, then at the floor the elevator could move to the side. Many buildings have a large portion of their floor plates used by elevator shafts serving other points in the building. You can do things like express elevators to other lobbies but otherwise this limits the practical height of the building.
We know how to build a building that is several thousand meters in height. Aside from construction costs, transporting people to those upper floors has been the large difficulty. This might solve the transportation problem.
Space tourism will be a huge business. Just from discussing it with customers of mine (who pay $150,000 for a week in Vegas for 2 people, what's $150,000 to hit space?), I bet there are at least 100,000 people in the world who would pay $50,000 to travel.
The catch is that $5B isn't nearly enough to design an orbital space craft and launch it 10k times (10 people per trip).
I think it would be interesting to see a comsumption analysis for the trip in terms of oil. (Setting aside, for the moment, coal-genereated power, etc.). Perhaps the Segway vs. a bicycle vs. an efficient motorcycle vs a hybrid car.
Bicycles don't use very much oil but they sure go through a ton of cow and pig --Mmmmm pork.
Actually it becomes clear that server side enforced advertising (click-through pages with manditory delays) are necessary because you cannot trust the client.
I didn't choose Windows; I inherited it and have no resources to replace it. My company didn't really choose Windows; it was forced on us by the marketplace. Be realistic! My wife just bought an Apple, and the first thing she installed on it was the OS-X version of MS Office, necessary for compatibility with her company. Unforunately as with most poor business decisions it is far cheaper and easier to reverse them early on. The longer that decision is carried out the more it will cost (in effort and expenses) to get out of.
Sometimes sticking with a poor decision is worth while as the short-term revenue gained outweighs the change cost at a later time.
The poor decision in the case of your business wasn't using Windows. The decision to get locked in to a single vendor on a singal platform with no resonable option for changing could make things very difficult.
I'm fairly certain steps have been taken to ensure that the company is not locked in with a single bank or insurance company or most suppliers. Sure, they picked the cheapest and most accomodating but someone will have thought of an escape plan for most things. Risk management applies to computers just as much as any 3rd party tool required for doing business.
You will find it difficult to generate a list of products that Microsoft did create from the ground up and wasn't aquired directly (purchase of code) or of the company that created it -- complete rewrite after purchase not withstanding.
DB2 probably won't ever see daylight (or AIX for that matter). Too many patent agreements and other things that would need to be resolved. I could see them offering PostgreSQL as an alternative for the same reason as Linux is an alternative to AIX.
The big buyers will still get the DB2 / AIX combination but it gives them a chance to sell hardware and support to the little guy.
IBM will (and does) support installations running PostgreSQL already in their managed solutions department.
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Freebsd Apache Python Postgresql is so much better though. Who wants to LAMP when you can FAPP instead?
It would be neat if you could get a white car in summer and a dark or black car in winter. I wonder what energy savings (if any) could be obtained through something like this.
Even something as invasive as swapping the video drivers can be done without a reboot. Exit X (or init 3), adjust startup script, restart X - all done. I think most windows users would consider restarting their gui to be a reboot -- especially if they were forced to close all their applications first.
7200 movies per hour won't even cover a small city during peak usage. How many cable companies do you know of that have 8k clients at the most? Assume for every household with the TV off there is another with 2 sets on different channels.
Ahem.. That is $4 per person per year for the TV and VCR only (two devices).
Microwave, washer, dryer, printer, phone, monitors, lamps, battery chargers (cell phone, laptop, etc.), cradles, etc. also take energy when in standby mode -- or what most people call off.
They list 1000kw per year per household, so at 7 cents per kw that works out to closer to $70 per year. If it adds between $0.50 and $1 to the manufacturing cost to reduce that by 50% it would probably be a net-win for most devices plugged in for most than 6 months.
The more I can automate, the lighter my workload gets, and the less likely I am to end up in a clock tower with a sniper rifle. Hmm... Are there more or less people (as a percentage of population) in clock towers with rifles today or 100 years ago?
We're talking about word processors and spreadsheets here. If someone doesn't want a document passed around, copied, etc, then chances are it's "Privileged Information". Where's the problem, again?
Having a standard encryption algorithm and defined methods to key exchange, etc. would be very useful than the brew-your-own hodge podge that usually happens (PGP and a few shell scripts that Nautalis can run in my case).
4) it supports text fields that are only limited by your OS and uses them extremely efficiently. These are not like SQL server blob fields but they are like HUGE text fields that can be indexed or used in aggregate functions.
It should be mentioned that PostgreSQL will only index the first few kilobytes of the data in the field. The remainder will be compared against at the heap level.
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I think if the world's governments all got together to find a renewable clean energy source
Clean is debatable. Oil was considered clean back when the alternative was a horse crapping on the street or coal powered boilers.
We think fusion, wind, solar, etc. are clean simply because we haven't put much thought into what would happen if everyone used it on a massive scale.
For example, we know that wind and solar impact the local microclimate but we don't really have much data on their impact on a wider scale.
Better than oil? Certainly, but nothing is free and everything will have some kind of negative impact.
Stock stock went up today. They may have taken a raise by giving up their annual salary.
You don't need to cut off someones head to fool them. A good digital camera and printer will do the trick:
Security Magazine Article: 04/10/2004
"Many secure facilities employ iris scanners, which analyze the features that exist in the colored tissue surrounding the pupil including rings, furrows and freckles. To help prevent "fake eyes" from being used, these systems shine a light into the user's eye to monitor pupil dilation. However, they have been routinely defeated in the laboratory by several astute experimenters. To accomplish this, a high-quality digital image of an authorized person first was obtained by the experimenter, then enlarged to show the eye detail and subsequently printed out on high-quality photographic paper. Then, a small hole was cut in the photograph where the pupil was printed to expose the pupil in the experimenter's own eye. The experimenter would then place the photo up against his eye so that his pupil could be seen behind the hole. This very basic and inexpensive technique was effective in routinely fooling the iris scan readers of several manufacturers."
Google caved under pressure to China to screen thoughtcrime out of its results.
That's okay. The Chinese think a number of American, Canadian, European, etc. laws are pretty wacky too.
If Google wants to do business in $country then they generally need to follow that countries laws regardless of what people from outside $country think.
I imagine many Americans would be fairly upset if Google started to encourage 15 year olds to have a glass of wine or beer with dinner or a smoke after sex which is considered normal behaviour (if not encouraged behaviour) for people of that age in some countries.
Every place has wacky laws when you are not used to them.
That, and the fact that terrorists like trying to knock them over with trucks and airplanes.
I didn't say Americans would build them.
Developers in other countries that don't have that particular fear will do it. Dubai and Hong Kong are probably both ready to step up to the plate -- they're both pushing elevator systems as far as they can go today.
This has 2 major advantages.
1. There should not be a height restriction. Cables on elevators have a tendency to swing around at resonance points. This limits the length of the cable and the height of the shaft as a result.
2. It should be possible to run more than one elevator in a single shaft. Have a single up-shaft and a single down-shaft, then at the floor the elevator could move to the side. Many buildings have a large portion of their floor plates used by elevator shafts serving other points in the building. You can do things like express elevators to other lobbies but otherwise this limits the practical height of the building.
We know how to build a building that is several thousand meters in height. Aside from construction costs, transporting people to those upper floors has been the large difficulty. This might solve the transportation problem.
Space tourism will be a huge business. Just from discussing it with customers of mine (who pay $150,000 for a week in Vegas for 2 people, what's $150,000 to hit space?), I bet there are at least 100,000 people in the world who would pay $50,000 to travel.
The catch is that $5B isn't nearly enough to design an orbital space craft and launch it 10k times (10 people per trip).
I think it would be interesting to see a comsumption analysis for the trip in terms of oil. (Setting aside, for the moment, coal-genereated power, etc.). Perhaps the Segway vs. a bicycle vs. an efficient motorcycle vs a hybrid car.
Bicycles don't use very much oil but they sure go through a ton of cow and pig --Mmmmm pork.
Then instead of Warp Drive we may have found cheap one-way time travel into the future.
Got an illness? Skip the freezer and go to the Slow Zone instead.
Actually it becomes clear that server side enforced advertising (click-through pages with manditory delays) are necessary because you cannot trust the client.
I didn't choose Windows; I inherited it and have no resources to replace it. My company didn't really choose Windows; it was forced on us by the marketplace. Be realistic! My wife just bought an Apple, and the first thing she installed on it was the OS-X version of MS Office, necessary for compatibility with her company.
Unforunately as with most poor business decisions it is far cheaper and easier to reverse them early on. The longer that decision is carried out the more it will cost (in effort and expenses) to get out of.
Sometimes sticking with a poor decision is worth while as the short-term revenue gained outweighs the change cost at a later time.
The poor decision in the case of your business wasn't using Windows. The decision to get locked in to a single vendor on a singal platform with no resonable option for changing could make things very difficult.
I'm fairly certain steps have been taken to ensure that the company is not locked in with a single bank or insurance company or most suppliers. Sure, they picked the cheapest and most accomodating but someone will have thought of an escape plan for most things. Risk management applies to computers just as much as any 3rd party tool required for doing business.
You will find it difficult to generate a list of products that Microsoft did create from the ground up and wasn't aquired directly (purchase of code) or of the company that created it -- complete rewrite after purchase not withstanding.
DB2 probably won't ever see daylight (or AIX for that matter). Too many patent agreements and other things that would need to be resolved. I could see them offering PostgreSQL as an alternative for the same reason as Linux is an alternative to AIX.
The big buyers will still get the DB2 / AIX combination but it gives them a chance to sell hardware and support to the little guy.
IBM will (and does) support installations running PostgreSQL already in their managed solutions department.
Freebsd Apache Python Postgresql is so much better though. Who wants to LAMP when you can FAPP instead?
It is perfectly capable of holding cups.
It would be neat if you could get a white car in summer and a dark or black car in winter. I wonder what energy savings (if any) could be obtained through something like this.
Even something as invasive as swapping the video drivers can be done without a reboot. Exit X (or init 3), adjust startup script, restart X - all done.
I think most windows users would consider restarting their gui to be a reboot -- especially if they were forced to close all their applications first.
7200 movies per hour won't even cover a small city during peak usage. How many cable companies do you know of that have 8k clients at the most? Assume for every household with the TV off there is another with 2 sets on different channels.
... and turn the entire Internet into a giant game.
You mean it isn't already a giant game?
Ahem.. That is $4 per person per year for the TV and VCR only (two devices).
Microwave, washer, dryer, printer, phone, monitors, lamps, battery chargers (cell phone, laptop, etc.), cradles, etc. also take energy when in standby mode -- or what most people call off.
They list 1000kw per year per household, so at 7 cents per kw that works out to closer to $70 per year. If it adds between $0.50 and $1 to the manufacturing cost to reduce that by 50% it would probably be a net-win for most devices plugged in for most than 6 months.
The more I can automate, the lighter my workload gets, and the less likely I am to end up in a clock tower with a sniper rifle.
Hmm... Are there more or less people (as a percentage of population) in clock towers with rifles today or 100 years ago?
Do computers save lives?
We're talking about word processors and spreadsheets here. If someone doesn't want a document passed around, copied, etc, then chances are it's "Privileged Information". Where's the problem, again?
Having a standard encryption algorithm and defined methods to key exchange, etc. would be very useful than the brew-your-own hodge podge that usually happens (PGP and a few shell scripts that Nautalis can run in my case).
What would be great is a replication mechanism where you can replicate from a remote postgres server to a local embedded sqlite database.
You might be able to coax Slony into doing these kinds of tricks if you can mark the SQLLite installation as write-only (write only for Slony).
4) it supports text fields that are only limited by your OS and uses them extremely efficiently. These are not like SQL server blob fields but they are like HUGE text fields that can be indexed or used in aggregate functions.
It should be mentioned that PostgreSQL will only index the first few kilobytes of the data in the field. The remainder will be compared against at the heap level.
Yes. A little bit of polish could be added to hide all of the actual working components.